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Continue reading →: Money Makes the World Go Wrong
I still haven’t seen Parasite, which I gather touches on similar topics, but several of my favorite movies of the year so far have had one unshakable central theme in common: Rich people are bad, actually. It’s not a terribly different theme from many of the movies that I grew up…
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Continue reading →: “Let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.” – Shanks (1974)
Every now and then, I watch a movie that makes me lament that I am no longer actively writing Vault of Secrets columns or working on another volume of Monsters from the Vault. Shanks is definitely one of those movies. Some time ago, I decided to try to watch some of the…
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Continue reading →: Pestilence
As any attentive reader already knows, I got sick on my birthday, which was twelve days gone now. I’m still sick. Most of the other symptoms have lessened with time, but I am stuck with a persistent cough that is painful, frustrating, and exhausting. Worse still, it won’t let me sleep.…
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Continue reading →: Sardonic Tales: “When a Beast Looks Up at the Stars”
A few years ago, I did a thing where I picked a movie that would make a good double-feature with one of the stories in my then-newest collection, Painted Monsters. This year, for the Countdown to Halloween, I thought it might be fun to do the same thing, but with my…
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Continue reading →: Too Much Horror Business
As I write this, it’s my birthday, October 30, 2019. At least it is for another few hours. This year, I promised myself that I would do Halloween all the way to the hilt if it killed me in October. And I did. And it looks like maybe it did.…
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Continue reading →: Sardonic Tales: “The Cult of Headless Men”
A few years ago, I did a thing where I picked a movie that would make a good double-feature with one of the stories in my then-newest collection, Painted Monsters. This year, for the Countdown to Halloween, I thought it might be fun to do the same thing, but with my…
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Continue reading →: Sardonic Tales: “Baron von Werewolf Presents: Frankenstein Against the Phantom Planet”
A few years ago, I did a thing where I picked a movie that would make a good double-feature with one of the stories in my then-newest collection, Painted Monsters. This year, for the Countdown to Halloween, I thought it might be fun to do the same thing, but with my…
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Continue reading →: Sardonic Tales: “Invaders of Gla’aki”
A few years ago, I did a thing where I picked a movie that would make a good double-feature with one of the stories in my then-newest collection, Painted Monsters. This year, for the Countdown to Halloween, I thought it might be fun to do the same thing, but with my…
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Continue reading →: Sardonic Tales: “Dark and Deep”
A few years ago, I did a thing where I picked a movie that would make a good double-feature with one of the stories in my then-newest collection, Painted Monsters. This year, for the Countdown to Halloween, I thought it might be fun to do the same thing, but with my…
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Continue reading →: Sardonic Tales: “Haruspicate or Scry”
A few years ago, I did a thing where I picked a movie that would make a good double-feature with one of the stories in my then-newest collection, Painted Monsters. This year, for the Countdown to Halloween, I thought it might be fun to do the same thing, but with my…
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